Species: Gobiosoma hildebrandi, Hildebrand's goby
midline - row dark spots
Gobiosoma hildebrandi (Ginsburg, 1939)
Hildebrand's goby
Body robust; head almost round; snout blunt, slopes abruptly down at front; narrow between eyes (< ½ eye diameter); head without barbells; mouth oblique; upper lip separated from snout by a groove along its top edge; upper and lower jaws with 3-4 rows of teeth, outer and inner enlarged; no teeth on sides of roof of mouth; tongue round to blunt; front nostril tubular, rear with raised rim; dorsal fin VII (first 2 of males prolonged) + I, 11 (10-11) rays; anal I, 10 (9-10) rays; pectoral rays 17 (16-18); pelvics fused in disc; genital papilla broad, 2-lobed in male, notched & fringed in female; body scales large, rough, body completely scaled behind a line under of center of soft dorsal, with a triangular extension of scales forwards along midflank under pectoral to its base; scales in 25-28 longitudinal rows; 4-6 large very rough scales on base of tail fin; head scaleless.
Light brown; ~ 6 forward-sloping wide dark bars on body, with narrow dark bars in between, centers of bars with a series of longitudinal dashes along midside; head with a 5 oblique, forward-pointing bars under and behind eyes on preopercle, and operculum; pectoral base with short bar, a spot at top & bottom bases of pectoral fin, joined by a narrow row of pigment; fins dusky, pelvics darker in males; dorsal & anal with 1-2 stripes along entire midline; tail with faint wavy bars in female.
Size: 4.6 cm TL
Habitat: fresh and brackish water, with mud/rock substrate
Depth: 0-6 m.
The W Atlantic coast of Panama; Jamaica; Barbados; also at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal.
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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Freshwater
- Non Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Freshwater
- Soft bottom only
- Sand & gravel
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- No Data
- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- TEP non-endemic
- Exotic (Introduced)
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- All species
- Continent only
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Vulnerable
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 4.6
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 6
